Turkish folk story: The Princess of Balls

once upon a time, turkey had a king, and he had only one son.

the king loves the prince so he doesn't read, he plays whatever he wants.

the prince's favorite is a gold-made ball, which he plays alone from morning to night, with no mercy.

one day, the prince played the gold ball on the balconies in the yard and threw it around.

a little while later, i saw a woman i've never seen, holding a bottle of water to the spring.

the prince saw her, deliberately mocked her, threw the ball like an arrow at her wife's water bottle, and the water bottle broke.

the old lady was shocked and she was angry, but the prince was the one who made her laugh, and then she went back to get a new bottle.

but the prince threw the ball again and her water bottle broke again.

this time, she was upset and tried to scold him, but was afraid to offend the king, she kept quiet and brought a new bottle of water.

at that point, she bought the bottle from the store because she had no money.

but when the old lady came to the spring and filled the bottle with water, the prince threw the ball and smashed it.

this time, my wife was really upset, staring at the prince, and she said, "prince, go and love the princess! i'm just saying this now." she's gone.

the prince does not understand the words of his wife or his mother, nor does he understand why she should say that to him.

so he thought day and night, and thought, and became weak, so he fell asleep.

the king was very much in love with the prince, so he was very worried that he would be immediately brought together well-known doctors and scholars from the country, but none of them would be able to see the source of the disease.

but the prince's illness is a heavy day.

one day, the king asked him what was missing in his heart, and then the prince broke his wife's three bottles, she got angry, told him something that he could not understand, told the national worker in detail, and lamented, saying, “the only way i can get out of this suffering is if i go to the princess of the balls, as she says, so promise me to go out and find the princess!" the king pondered for a while and felt that he would not be treated if he did not obey him, so he chose a bodyguard to accompany the prince.

no prince has ever been seen, alone with a bodyguard, on a lonely journey.

after many days and months of walking, they were unable to find the ball princess, and then the prince was wearing a very gorgeous dress, which had been broken and his hair had fallen down and the two were completely savage.

but they're indifferent to these things.

they're just dying to find the ball princess.

they took so many journeys and then met a mountain.

but it's a strange mountain, and it's all red as the sun.

when they were confused, they approached their husbands and asked them about the name of the mountain.

the husband replied, "this is the mountain of the ball princess." he told them the ball princess had seven layersbut the light on her face shone on the mountain, so there was such a red reflection.

when they listened to their husband, and were happy, they asked him, "where does the ball princess live?" "you move forward, and you walk about six months, and you can go where the ball princess lives." the husband answered.

at the same time, he told them that there had been many attempts to listen to the princess and to go there, but that they had failed completely and that their lives had been sacrificed.

but the prince was not afraid of what he said.

they continued on their way, walking for about three months, meeting a red-blooded mountain and what they had seen before.

they find it strange to go to people nearby and ask, "why is this mountain so red?" according to their reply, the princess of the ball lives three months from here; the colour of her lips is on the hill, so the mountain becomes red.

having listened to these words, they knew that the destination was near and happy, and they moved on.

a while ago, when he saw a high mountain ahead, the prince thought that it was the place where the ball princess lived and climbed it immediately.

i saw a city in the mountains, but it was terrible! turns out the city was made of people's skulls.

the prince said to the guard: “you see, these skulls, they don't hear the princess and die.

if we can do that, we will do it; if not, we will use the head as a stone and pile it here.

one of the two!” in a short time, they went to the streets near the city, where they were temporarily resting in a hotel because they felt very tired.

and many of the guests in the hotel were crying: o my brother! o my son! and the prince asked them about the cause.

in fact, it is known without a question that these guests were the families of those who had died because of the princess.

they answered, "what are you asking me? soon, you'll die, too! this is the capital of the princess's father, and whoever hears a word from the princess must go to the king, who sends an army to the princess's side.” the prince listened and thought, secretly, that i was in bad luck, so he turned to the guard and said, "maybe i'm going to have to say goodbye to the world.

shouldn't i take five or six days off and think about it?" since that day, both of them have been staying in a hotel and have taken a daily walk on the streets.

the prince was trying to think about it, and one day he suddenly saw a man carrying a bird cage in which a yellow beak intended to sell.

the prince is very pleased with this yellow herd and would like to buy it right away.

but his guard was right there, saying, "a prince, something important is coming! what are you doing with this yellow bean?" but the prince, who did not listen to his bodyguards, still turned a thousand “bistros” and bought the yellow garb and hung it in his room.

one day, the prince was alone in the house, in a cageLook, he thought I'd die if I failed.

He was so sad, so sad.

The bird in the cage suddenly says, "Prince! Prince! Why are you so bored?" The prince listened, very strangely, and he thought that it must be a messenger of God, so immediately tell him why.

And Huang heard, and said, "Well, don't worry, that's easy.

Tonight, take me to the princess, hang the cage on the lampstand, and greet the princess.

If the princess ignores you, you will say, "As soon as the princess refuses to speak to me, I will speak to the lightstand." 'So, if you say anything, I'll answer you.

The princess was not allowed to see her, nor was she allowed to see her, because she had seven layers of cover.” Having listened to the yellow camp, the Prince was as happy as ever and immediately arrived in front of the King, requesting permission to meet the Princess.

The king thought, "This is another poor young man!" That is why he was asked to reject that wish and to try to dissuade him and say to him, “Many people have lost their lives for this before.

Of course, if you can hear the princess, I can marry her; but when you fail, you must become a skull, a stone, a wall.” But the prince who has made his decision fell before him, swearing to him that if he loses his life, he will and will not repent.

The king couldn't, and he sent the army to lead the prince to the princess.

The prince came to the princess, and it was dusk.

He hanged the bird cage he brought it on the lamppost, then bowed his head in front of the princess, greeted her respectfully, and said two or three words.

Of course, the princess ignored him, and he said, "Ah! It's clear, and since the princess won't talk to me, I'll talk to the lampstand now, even if there's no emotion, perhaps more than princess and smooth." Come on, just turn around and say hello to the lampstand: "How are you? Mr.

Lantern!" The lantern — actually, the yellow jar in the cage — listened to what the prince said to it, and immediately answered: “Thank you! Although I speak to people, this is the first time, God is very happy with you, and I am very happy.

So, what do we say?" The prince said, "Whatever you say!" "Well, let's talk!" The lampstand said, "There is a place, there is a king, there is only a beautiful princess.

The princess has three princes who love her.

But the king said to them, "Whoever of you has amazing technology, marry the princess." 'Then the princes immediately went out and promised to meet at some place on a certain day of the month, and raced who was highly skilled.

"The princes wanted to marry the princess, so they practiced their skills.

As a result, the first prince was trained to run fast, and ordinary people had to travel for six months, and he had to travel for one hour.

The second prince, who is capable of concealing his body and making him invisible.

And the power of the third prince will revive the dead.

Later, when the scheduled date of the meeting had arrived, they arrived at the place they had agreed to.

Then, the second kinghe hides his body and visits the princess.

he only sees her suffering from a very serious disease and dying.

he went back and told the other two princes.

they heard, and the third worker was in a hurry to get a drug.

the first prince ran as fast as he could, and he came to the princess like an electric light, carrying it to the lips of a dead princess.

the princess took the pill and immediately recovered and sat on the bed.

later, both the second prince and the third prince arrived.

“a prince, ask you: "who among the three princes saves the princess? who should she marry?" wong zhu finished the story and asked the prince.

the prince reflected and replied: “in my opinion, the third prince should be married.” but wong yuan insisted that the princess should marry the second prince.

their differences of opinion gave rise to a heated debate.

the princess sat silently, and she heard the story, and now listening to their debate, she thought, "these people forgot the first prince!" but she's still holding her breath and she's not ringing.

and then later, the more the princes argued, the more intense she was, she didn't know to flip the seven-story mask, and she said, "you fools! i thought the princess should marry the first prince.

because without him, the princess died.

the ball princess spoke, spoke, the prince was very happy.

but the king was astonished, and he said, "maybe it's the princess who fell for you, and this time it's impossible to count, unless you make her talk again." the prince listened to the king, and he fell apart and came back to the hotel, staring at the bird cage and thinking.

he was comforted by the yellow garbs in his cage, and said, "as prince, try again!" but this time, the ball princess spoke herself and blamed the lampstand for not being good.

at nightfall, he took the bird pet and went to the princess of the ball, where he was taught to hang the cage on the wall and greeted the princess.

the princess, of course, ignored him, so he turned back and said to the wall with the bird cage, "will you speak to me if the princess doesn't talk to me tonight?" huang qing immediately replied: “thank you! i'm glad the princess won't talk to you.

why? because if the princess speaks, who else would talk to us? now i'll tell you another story tonight.

"ah, that's better!" said the prince.

and so huang started to say, "there was a girl somewhere and three men loved her.

the three men, all of whom visited her, never met each other.

"one day, when she was combing her hair, she suddenly saw a white hair, and she didn't feel sad and said, "aah! i'm old.

don't think about it.

'she was alone.

"tomorrow, she calls three men one by one.

not for a second.

firstThe man came, saw her crying, and asked her why.

So she said, "My father died and buried him in the yard, but every night the ghost comes out and bothers me, and I find it very annoying that if you really love me, please sleep in your grave for three hours in your life jacket.

Because of this, ghosts are said not to appear.

'She said, he took his own life coat and went to the grave.

Because he loved her so much.

So that's what I'm willing to do.

"Soon, the second man came.

He saw her crying and asked her why.

She told him if a ghost appeared after her father's death.

Then hand him a large stone: "If you love me, take this stone and kill this ghost.

'He loved her so much, so he immediately took the stone.

“Then a third man came.

He saw her crying and immediately asked her why.

And she cried, "My father is dead." But there was a magician, who was never in peace with my father, and now he's going to dig his grave and take my father's body.

If you love me, go to the grave and bring the body; otherwise, I'll die! 'The man loved her, too, so he listened and ran to the grave.

“But when he arrived, the second man thought the first man to sleep in the grave must have been a ghost and threw a stone over; the third man saw the second man and thought he was the evil magician, and then jumped on him.

The second man looked back, surprised, and he thought that it had to be a ghost, and he picked up stones and threw them.

But the first man met the second man, thinking that he was a ghost, and immediately ran out of the grave and took off his shirt.

So they met before they knew they were all humans, not ghosts.

- Prince, in your opinion, who is qualified to marry this girl? In my opinion, the third man." The prince said, "No, I thought it was the second man." They then argued again, the more they argued, the more they cast aside the first man.

The Princess listened to their stories in silence and to their arguments, leaving aside the first man who slept in the grave, feeling very uncomfortable and without realizing what he was saying.

The prince heard the princess and was so unhappy that he knew that his plan had been won。